Release from an InfoProvider to an ERP
System

Use

You can use this
function to release forecast data from the InfoProvider to an
ERP system. The release takes place directly to the ERP system. In
other words, you do not need to load the forecast data first into a planning
area in Demand Planning and thus into the time series liveCache.

Features

You can release the
forecast data from the following objects of the SAP Business Information
Warehouse (BW):

As data sources for
the release, you choose an InfoProvider and a planning version and key figure
contained in the InfoProvider. If you do not specify any characteristics for
product and location under Data Source: Extended Settings, the system uses the characteristics 9AMATNR
and 9ALOCNO.

The planning
version you use as the data source must be in the SAP SCM system.

The standard
settings for the grouping condition are product and location because the
release always takes place at location product level. If you are working with
location
splits, you restrict the characteristics exclusively to the location. The
system does not evaluate any other characteristics during the
release.

Choose a single
periodicity for the release. This periodicity must be available in the
InfoProvider. You must specify a planning version in the ERP system for the
data target. This planning version must already be in the ERP system before
the release takes place.

If you want to
release the data aggregated at the level of a periodicity, but this
periodicity is not available in the InfoProvider, you can use a period split
profile.

Determining the Number of Hits in
the InfoProvider

Before the release,
you can find out how large the data quantity is that you transfer to the ERP
system. To do so, use Number of Hits in InfoProvider. The system then determines the amount of
data for the planning version in the InfoProvider in the specified
period.

The system
adjusts the specified period automatically to the smallest periodicity
available in the InfoProvider. For example, if only the periodicity
“month” is available in the InfoProvider, and you enter January
15, 2005 to December 15, 2005 as the period, the system determines the data in
the period January 01, 2005 to December 31, 2005.

Activities

If you want to
release forecast data from the InfoProvider to an ERP system, from the
SAP Easy
Access screen, choose Demand Planning®Planning® Release ® Release from InfoProvider to ERP
System.